Twitter has revolutionized the way people get their message to the masses. Although predominately used for socializing with friends Twitter has become a great place to receive messages from politicians and other important people. Twitter has also become a platform for social calls to action; from the liberation of Egypt to the Occupy Wall Street movement Twitter has proven to be a powerful tool in the fight for social justice. The ability to reach people who share a common denominator without the filter of the mass media has proven very useful to whatever endeavor you’re involved in. Twitters power to inform and organize people has taken the hard work and high cost out of rallying people; 10 years ago you would need to make flyers, find likeminded people to give them to or use word of mouth. Today, if one has a large Twitter following he simply writes a time and place and why he is organizing and people will come. The Occupy Wall Street movement is a perfect example of this; Twitter was a important weapon in getting the thousands of unhappy Americans to meet at a certain place at a certain time. For a politician Twitter is a absolute game changer, in the past it was quite expensive to inform people about event, polices, answer question and respond to criticism; with the advent of Twitter a politician can do all these things with out breaking the budget on TV advertisements or printing wasteful literature. Form a journalistic perspective its also a great tool because you can get feed live from where a big story is happening; also live quotes from persons involved whatever your reporting upon.
The topics which I chose to follow on twitter where chosen because I though I would have a lot to say on the subjects. The New York Yankees, I chose the Yankees because I have been a life long fan; I am a proud New Yorker and felt their twitter feed would be chockfull of fun, insider information. MoMA was another one of my selections because I am a huge art fan, modern art in particular and the MoMa museums are the best places in the word to go see some, the Guggenheim being my favorite. ESPN’s Sports Center is the television show I am probably most passionate about because sports highlights are one of the most entertaining things ever and the anchors have great little quips, which are good for a laugh. There Twitter feed is updated constantly with the top stories in sports so it’s also a great way to stay informed in the world of sports. Twitter is quite different from blogging and in my opinion much better; first off people my age actually use twitter, only lonely middle aged know it alls blog; its also much easier to connect with likeminded people on Twitter, where as on blogs I feel you need to go looking for them. How Twitter differs from other social media sites is hard to say; It has less information then Facebook, but I feel like that the genius of it, your forced to read the post and there is little distractions from pictures and other gimmicks that Facebook offers.
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